Whats everyones favourite lyric?

lordgoat

Prayers laced with fear - beware. CD

Crooked spin can't some to rest, i'm damaged bad at best. ES

Poor old johnny ray, sounded sad upon the radio moved a million hearts in mono. KR

I'm a cherry ghost. JT (well i want to end up as one)

kingsley16

every single lyric on this song :pac:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC8aIC8lKr0

Dlite

So far away, doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore?
It would be so fine to see your face at my door. - Carol King

lucky that my breast are small and humble
So you don't confuse them for mountains. - Shakira

Without your love, it's tearing me apart,
Without your love, I'm doused in madness
Can't lose this sadness. - Archive

corcaigh07

id hate to see a ghost.
Its the sight I fear most.
Rather have a piece of toast.
Watch the evening news.

Life oh life ooooooohhhhhh liiiiiiffffe oh life do do do.


its just so ridiculous, it works!

lordgoat

corcaigh07 wrote: »

id hate to see a ghost.
Its the sight I fear most.
Rather have a piece of toast.
Watch the evening news.

Life oh life ooooooohhhhhh liiiiiiffffe oh life do do do.


its just so ridiculous, it works!

Ya it's up there with:

a mole,
diggin in a hole.

awesome to the max

niallon

How could I forget GMC feat State of Jay - "We need a politician with a mind like McGyver" from their rap promoting some candidate in the election. Seriously, I have to hand it to them for having the bottle!

Dan Dare

Every year is getting shorter
Never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to nought
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation
Is the English way
The time is gone
The song is over
Thought I'd something more to say

Pink Floyd-Time

Even though I'm Irish hearing those words brings a lump to my throat every time.:)

Lynskey

"I'll take a quiet life, a handshake, some carbon monoxide,
With no alarms and no surprises, no alarms and no surprises, no alarms and no surprises please"
-No Surprises (Radiohead)

One of the few lyrics out there that fuses simplicity with complexity in an underlying message that trancends description...brilliant stuff

I'm also fond of this from The Beatles:

"I read the news today, oh boy,
About a lucky man who made the grade
And thought the news was rather sad,
i just had to laugh
i saw the photograph
he blew his mind out in a car
he didn't notice that the lights had changed"

Kevster

"Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back"

IrishCian

Just like everyone else, there are hundreds of single lines I love. But of course, all of them left my mind as soon as I started to read this thread. But one possibillity is
"If you're afraid to die,
you better not be afraid to live"
Eels

Also by Eels
"The clown with the frown drove down to the sidewalk fair
Finger on the trigger let me tell you gave us quite a scare" - Mr. E's Beautiful Blues

Love Eels...

tech77

IrishCian wrote: »

Just like everyone else, there are hundreds of single lines I love. But of course, all of them left my mind as soon as I started to read this thread. But one possibillity is
"If you're afraid to die,
you better not be afraid to live"
Eels

Also by Eels
"The clown with the frown drove down to the sidewalk fair
Finger on the trigger let me tell you gave us quite a scare" - Mr. E's Beautiful Blues

Love Eels...

Yeah Eels have some decent lyrics alright.
First one's great- what's it from again?

4zn76tysfajdxp

I'm not really into lyrics but this example from Strawberry Fields Forever really does it for me:

No one I think is in my tree, I mean it must be high or low.
That is you can't you know tune in but it's all right.
That is I think it's not too bad.

What adds to it, I think, is the dramatic orchestration. Really hammers the point home imo.

niallon

IrishCian wrote: »

Just like everyone else, there are hundreds of single lines I love. But of course, all of them left my mind as soon as I started to read this thread. But one possibillity is
"If you're afraid to die,
you better not be afraid to live"
Eels

Also by Eels
"The clown with the frown drove down to the sidewalk fair
Finger on the trigger let me tell you gave us quite a scare" - Mr. E's Beautiful Blues

Love Eels...

Only Eels song I'm familiar with I'm guessing is "the commercial one" as it's from Shrek 2 but:

"I need some sleep, can't go on like this
I tried counting sheep, but there's one I always miss"

Always loved that lyric.

Another I forgot initially:

"Come down of the cross, we can use the wood"

Tom Waits - Come On Up To The House

IrishCian

tech77 wrote: »

Yeah Eels have some decent lyrics alright.
First one's great- what's it from again?

Its the first line from Friendly Ghost, of Souljacker Disc 1.
i kinda misquoted it, its "If you're scared" not if you're afraid...Forgive me, Mr. E!

Aglomerado

niallon wrote: »

"Come down of the cross, we can use the wood"
Tom Waits - Come On Up To The House[/I]

Agreed - this song is fantastic. Another great lyric in it is;
"The world is not my home I'm just passin' through."

JP Liz

There are places I'll remember
All my life though some have changed.
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain.
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall.
Some are dead and some are living,
In my life I've loved them all.

MonicaBing

Some of you guys might find this a bit schmaltzy, but it works for me,
BON JOVI- '' With an Iron clad fist, i wake up and french kiss the morning''....

METALLICA from The Unforgiven-''Lay beside me, tell me what they've done, speak the words i want to hear, to make my demons run, the door is locked now, but its open if your true, if you can understand the me, then i can understand the you'', Legend!

Soul Cake Duck

Not my favourite but can't think of any right now....

In pitch dark I go walking in your landscape, broken branches trip me as I speak, just because you feel it doesn't mean it's there...

Soul Cake Duck

Oh and I know you said line/lyric but this song it just brilliant.....Love conquers and is unaffected by death..brilliant lyrics imo anyway

TV On the Radio - Stork & Owl

Faceless fall. From this. Life and ah.
If you can't. See the stars.
You've probably gone too far.
Like the voice that cried.
On the lonesome tide.
Like the wave was
the only love it ever saw.

"What's this dying for"?
Asks the Stork that soars.
With the Owl. High above.
Canyons mighty walls.
Owl said "Death's a door,
That love walks through.
In and out. In and
out.
Back and forth. Back and forth".

Turn from the fear.
Of the storms that might be.
Oh let it free.
That caged on fire thing.
Oh hold its hands.
It'll feel like lightening.
Oh in your arms safe
from the storms.

Sky bends. The moon's dress's slung low,
slung low.
Dogstar taught a dance.
It goes, it goes, it goes, it goes, it goes, it goes, it goes.
Arms out. Knees bend.
The motion flows.
Like the soft. Open petals.
Of a Jessica Rose.

So Sirius.
So it falls apart?
Just reveals the perfect nothing.
Of everything you are.
Of everything we are!

Candle of life.
Lights the blights and bruises.
Oh lay it down.
In the night.
Let it soothe this.
Oh hold its hands.
And we'll know what truth is.
Oh in its arms safe from the storms.

Mr. Presentable

"Silver star studs on my duds, like a Harley in heat"

Beth1978

As cheesey as it is I still love it. I love Christmas and I love the idea of love:-

"All I want for Christmas....is you!"

niallon

MonicaBing wrote: »

METALLICA from The Unforgiven-''Lay beside me, tell me what they've done, speak the words i want to hear, to make my demons run, the door is locked now, but its open if your true, if you can understand the me, then i can understand the you'', Legend!

PEDANTIC POLICE ALERT!

That's Unforgiven II, not the first. Sorry, just too much of a Metallica head to let that one slip!

MonicaBing

niallon wrote: »

PEDANTIC POLICE ALERT!

That's Unforgiven II, not the first. Sorry, just too much of a Metallica head to let that one slip!

AAARGGGHHHH!!! Feck ya anyway!!! I only copped it there now! (FACEPALM) My son would soooooo disown me for that!

DarkJager

One of my favorite verses from 2Pac, from a song called "Me Against the World". Quite relevant if you think about it!

2pac Me Against the World wrote:

With all this extra stressin
The question I wonder is after death, after my last breath
When will I finally get to rest? Through this supression
they punish the people that's askin questions
And those that possess, steal from the ones without possesions
The message I stress: to make it stop study your lessons
Don't settle for less - even the genius asks questions
Be grateful for blessings
Don't ever change, keep your essence
The power is in the people and politics we address
Always do your best, don't let the pressure make you panic
And when you get stranded
And things don't go the way you planned it
Dreamin of riches, in a position of makin a difference
Politicians and hypocrites, they don't wanna listen
If I'm insane, it's the fame made a brother change
It wasn't nuttin like the game
It's just me against the world

niallon

MonicaBing wrote: »

AAARGGGHHHH!!! Feck ya anyway!!! I only copped it there now! (FACEPALM) My son would soooooo disown me for that!

It's ok, redeem yourself by agreeing that The Unforgiven III is also lyrically beautiful :

"How could he know this new dawn's light would change his life forever?
Set sail to see but run aground by the light of dawn and treasure"

Seriously, for anyone who's ever written off Metallica as a juvenile metal band, listen to The Unforgiven Trilogy.

skyscraperblue

Supercroc wrote: »

In pitch dark I go walking in your landscape, broken branches trip me as I speak, just because you feel it doesn't mean it's there...

I like that, what's it from?

My favourite has to be...

Maybe God can be on both sides of a gun - The Fray
I know it's really short but it stands out so much for me.

silvervixen84

"kiss, while your lips are still red" Nightwish - While Your Lips are Still Red

"one night alone, is like a year without you baby, do you have a heart of stone?" Deff Leppard - When Love and Hate Collide

All the lyrics from Fisherman's Blues by The Waterboys

Soul Cake Duck

skyscraperblue wrote: »

I like that, what's it from?

Its Radiohead's - 'There There'

Weekend Warrior

Way too many to choose, so I'll just pick the first that comes to mind...

"I dreamt about you last night
And I fell out of bed twice
You can pin and mount me like a butterfly
But "Take me to the haven of your bed"
Was something that you never said,
Two lumps, please,
You're the bee's knees,
But so am I."

-The Smiths, 'Reel Around The Fountain'

kwalshe

"The Cuervo Gold.... The Fine Columbian.... Make tonight a wonderful thing...." Hey Nineteen : Steely Dan